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This handout discusses clinician reporting guidelines regarding elder abuse. It also provides elder abuse resources and screening tools.
This handout discusses factors to consider when evaluating an older driver, interventions to improve driving ability, and approaches when driving should stop. It also describes legal implications for clinicians.
This handout defines cognitive aging, describes assessment instruments,and tips for promoting cognitive health and how to discuss the topic of cognitive health with patients and their families.
This handout discusses how to differentiate between the need for palliative care versus hospice care in patients with a severe life-limiting illness.
This handout reviews the diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and causes for diarrhea and fecal incontinence in older adults.
This handout discusses goals of older adult diabetics such as maintaining glycemic pressure and blood pressure. It also reviews the use of statins and aspirin for cardioprotection.
This handout reviews both prescription drugs and non-prescription supplements that have been used to treat depression in older adults. It also highlights medications associated with depression and antidepressants that should be avoided.
This handout reviews the process of screening, diagnosis, and treatment of depression in older adults. It also discusses special considerations to consider such as bereavement and suicide.
This handout discusses the fact that the diagnosis of dementia is often missed, and it provides different approaches to improve this diagnosis.
This handout discusses problems with polypharmacy, and provides recommendations for how clinicians should discuss the process of deprescribing medications to their patients.
The Age-Friendly Care and Education Collection is part of
Minnesota Northstar GWEP,
supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program of
the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Award No. U1QHP33076, the University of Minnesota Office of Academic
Clinical Affairs, and the Otto Bremer Trust.